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English to Spanish: If you could be any animal, which animal would you be and why?General field: OtherDetailed field: Religion

Source text - EnglishYears ago when my buddies and I were on a high-school retreat we were asked that question. We thought it was foolishness at the time, but it turned out our answers revealed a lot about ourselves—both to ourselves and to each other. (Go ahead, answer that question with members of your family and share your answers with each other at dinner tonight.)
Jesus revealed a lot about himself by similar analogies. “I am the good shepherd,” he said. And “I am the bread of life.” He also called himself the narrow gate. My favorite image that Jesus gave of himself was, “I am the vine and you are the branches.” Each image gave clues about himself, his relationship to God, and his relationship to us.
I remember when I was a teenager and I met one of my heroes. He was a DJ on the radio who had a booming voice and a confident style. Yet when he came to emcee our 8th grade dance he walked in and no one knew who he was. He looked like Barney Fife, the Don Knots character—skinny, nervous, and unsure of himself.
Have you ever had an idea about what someone is like and when you met them your realize you were totally off base? Jesus wasn’t who people expected. People in his day had various ideas of who the one sent by God would be. And those ideas didn’t correspond with this itinerant rabbi and his strange notions of God.